Arizona is the subject of a massive class action lawsuit filed on behalf of thousands of victims of Medicaid fraud. A Maricopa County Superior Court judge rejected the state’s request to dismiss the case.
Starting around 2019, a loophole allowed bad actors to defraud Arizona’s Medicaid agency out of an estimated $2.8 billion.
Perpetrators primarily targeted Native Americans and charged the state for addiction treatment services they never provided while holding victims in fake sober living homes…